"Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice, it takes love."- Maza Dohta These are ideas I have been developing on my blog – Druid Life , and are not part of any wider perception of what Druidry is (yet). However, so far the idea of approaching aspects of life as art forms has caught… Continue reading Healing Yourself: Nine Druidic Arts
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Let’s Share a Cup of Mead: The Basics of Druid Divination
"Good is the wellspring of measured speech. Good is the home of the well of inspiration. Good is the joining of their powers: Strength is made durable. It endures longer than any fortress. It is better than any tradition.It is our guide to wisdom,As we free ourselves from ignorance." - Amergin White Knee in the… Continue reading Let’s Share a Cup of Mead: The Basics of Druid Divination
Three Forms of Knowledge in Druid Tradition
“Attius Patera, The Elder, The Rhetorician- Patera, renowned speaker, although in years you outpaced the men named earlier, seeing that your prime was in the age next before my own, and that in my youth I saw you in your old age, you shall not lack the tribute of my sad dirge, teacher of might… Continue reading Three Forms of Knowledge in Druid Tradition
Sovereignty and Liminality With Sharon Paice MacLeod
I sing of the Cauldron of MotionA streaming of imbasA rivermouth of learning Joy at the guiding principlesof poetic skillafter a good study of it Joy at the bringing forth of imbaswhich the nine hazels protectat Segais in the realms of the Síd. - Excerpts from "The Cauldron of Poesy," translated by Sharon P. MacLeod… Continue reading Sovereignty and Liminality With Sharon Paice MacLeod
Working With a Class and Law System
“I am a freeman of a free state.” - Dumnorix, Gaulish Chieftain of the Aedui, 1st century BCE The nations both in the isles and Western Europe were typically separated into three or arguably, four main classes. At the top was the king, the Ard Rí or ‘Rí’ in Old Irish and Ireland specifically. In… Continue reading Working With a Class and Law System